Ștefan Foriș

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Ștefan Foriș (actually István Fóris , also known as Marius ; born May 9, 1892 in Tărlungeni , Brașov County , Kingdom of Hungary ; † 1946 ) was an activist and journalist of the communist parties of Romania and Hungary of Jewish origin. Foris was general secretary of the Romanian Communist Party between 1940 and 1944 .

His parents were István Fóris and Anna Kocsis. The family was wealthy and owned a brick factory. He attended elementary school in Tărlungeni, then he went to Brasov to the business high school. Foris was a voluntary soldier in the First World War. After the war he joined the Communist Party in Hungary and worked as a member of the council government .

In 1919 Foris returned to Braşov. In 1921 he joined the newly formed Romanian Communist Party, which was banned in 1924. He was the editor of two left-wing newspapers. In 1928 the military court in Cluj-Napoca sentenced him to ten years in prison, but Foris fled to the USSR . For a while he lived in Moscow , Vienna and Berlin . He returned to Romania in 1930 and served part of his sentence in a prison between 1931 and 1935.

Foriș was removed from the leadership of the Romanian Communist Party on April 4, 1944. He was arrested on June 9, 1945 and accused of high treason by three members of the party's secretariat - Teohari Georgescu , Joseph Chisinevschi and Gavrila Wirtin (party secretary of the Oradea region). Foriş was slain in 1946 by Gheorghe Pintilie (Pantiuşa Bondarenko) in consultation with his driver D. Neciu with a crowbar. Pintilie and secret service workers in Oradea also murdered Foriş's 70-year-old mother.

Foriș was rehabilitated by Nicolae Ceaușescu in 1968. A public prosecutor's investigation found that the decision to assassinate Foris was made by Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej , Teohari Georgescu , Ana Pauker and other senior members of the Romanian Communist Party.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Comunismul românesc de la începuturi până la moartea lui Gh. Gheorghiu-Dej . Retrieved September 27, 2013 (Romanian).
  2. ↑ Communism - Historical Truth . accessed on September 27, 2013 (Romanian)
  3. ↑ Asasinarea comunistului Floriş - Crimă roşie la patru mâini In: Adevărul . Retrieved September 27, 2013 (Romanian).

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SURNAME Foriș, Ștefan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marius (pseudonym); Fóris, István (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian-Romanian communist and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Tărlungeni , Brașov County , Kingdom of Hungary
DATE OF DEATH 1946